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Getting to Church Narratives of Gender and JoiningSally K. Gallagher
Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2017

Gender, Sexuality, and DiasporaFataneh Farahani
This work argues that diaspora cannot stand as an epistemological category of analysis, separated and distinct from the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Through narrative analysis along with gendered understanding of the reasons, processes and consequences of displacement...Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2017

Sexuality and CitizenshipDiane Richardson
Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship...Format: Paperback - Released: 29/09/2017

Sexuality and CitizenshipDiane Richardson
Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship...Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/2017

The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and WorkJane Jenson
This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s...Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2017

Engendering Psychology Women and Gender RevisitedFlorence Denmark
Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the...Format: Hardback - Released: 30/09/2017

Gender, Heteronormativity and the American PresidencyAidan Smith
Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidency places notions of gender at the centre of its analysis of presidential campaign communications. Over the decades, an investment in gendered representations of would-be leaders has changed little, in spite of the second and...Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2017

Water Security Across the Gender DivideChristiane Frohlich
This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities:...Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2017

(En)Gendering Taiwan The Rise of Taiwanese FeminismYa-chen Chen
This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese, Communist Chinese,...Format: Hardback - Released: 19/10/2017

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film GynaehorrorErin Harrington
Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes in the complexities that arise when boundaries - of taste, of bodies, of reason - are...Format: Hardback - Released: 15/08/2017

The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer TheoryNoreen Giffney
This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the terms 'queer'...Format: Paperback - Released: 14/08/2017